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The Pruning Radix Trie — a Radix Trie on steroids

Photo by niko photos

Wolf Garbe Wolf Garbe
28 May 2020

SymSpell vs. BK-tree: 100x faster fuzzy string search & spell checking

Conventional wisdom and textbooks say BK-trees are especially suited for spelling correction and fuzzy string search. But does this really hold true?

Wolf Garbe Wolf Garbe
24 Jul 2017

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🔥SeekStorm 3.0 adds vector search & hybrid search

🔥SeekStorm 3.0 adds vector search & hybrid search

SeekStorm uses two separate, first-class, native index architectures, under one roof. Lexical search (sparse retrieval): sharded and leveled inverted index. Vector search (dense retrieval): sharded and leveled IVF index for...

Wolf Garbe Wolf Garbe
20 Apr 2026
Document iterator and search with empty query string

Document iterator and search with empty query string

SeekStorm introduces a new Document Iterator API and support search with empty query strings.

Wolf Garbe Wolf Garbe
28 Jan 2026
Typo-tolerant Query auto-completion (QAC) - derived from indexed documents

Typo-tolerant Query auto-completion (QAC) - derived from indexed documents

— work in progress, live reporting from the lab 😀 —

Wolf Garbe Wolf Garbe
18 Dec 2025
N-gram index for faster phrase search: latency vs. size

N-gram index for faster phrase search: latency vs. size

TLDR;

Wolf Garbe Wolf Garbe
08 Aug 2025
The mystery of an 85% performance drop, lost in translation between CPU and OS.

The mystery of an 85% performance drop, lost in translation between CPU and OS.

Photo by Igor Omilaev TLDR : 85% performance drop caused by a faulty Windows 11 24H2 software update, that changed the task scheduler behavior into under-utilizing the P-Cores over E-cores...

Wolf Garbe Wolf Garbe
01 May 2025
SeekStorm sharded index architecture - using a multi-core processor like a miniature data center

SeekStorm sharded index architecture - using a multi-core processor like a miniature data center

Photo by Jim Witkowski

Wolf Garbe Wolf Garbe
04 Apr 2025